The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-28 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Moning ......... 26 minutes after 5 I Evening 4l minutes after 5 MARYLEBONE ELECTION. (From the " Hull Observer.") AT a numerous Meeting of the Friends of C o l one l THOMPSON, held in Hull, at the Freemasons' Hall, en Monday, February the 26th, 1838, Mr. John Peck in the Chair, t was resolved -Ist. That this meeting views with feelings of satisfaction and de light the prospect of their friend, and the friend of man, Colonel Thompson, obtaining a seat in the Commons' House of Parliament, at the forthcoming election for the borough of Marylebone. 2d. That the upright, honourable, and patrintie conduct of Colonel Thompson while Member for this Borough, has endeared him to all good Radicals ; that his devoted attention to the inte rests of his Constituents and the People at large, has earned for him " golden opinions" in this Borough, and that nothing but the base trickery of the Whigs could possibly have prevented hire being triumphantly returned Member for Hull at the last General Election. 3d. That knowing his great worth, his ability, his firmness, and his courage, we beg respectfully, but earnestly, to press upon the Electors of Marylebone the paramount necessity and importance of having such a Gentleman to represent them In the Commons' House of Parliament 4th. That in this important struggle this Meeting has full confi dence in the firmness and ability of Thomas Murphy, Esq., that he will prevent and d e f eat t h e mac hi nat i ons and trickery of the " base and deceitful Whigs ," that he will not allow himself to be cajoled or intimidated, to the withdrawal of the Gallant Colonel ; but that he will use every legal and constitutional means to secure the return of that gentleman. 6th. That we beg and entreat the Electors of Marylebone to be " up and doing ;" to rally round the Standard of Freedom in the person of Colonel Thompson; and we implore them as they love Liberty, to use every means—to make every sacrifice—to fight as becomes the good cause in which they are engaged, and, if success ful, they will receive, as they will be well entitled to, the sincere and grateful thanks of thousands of thousands of honest Radicals in all parts of the kiegdom. MARYLEBONE ELECTION, TO-MORROW. A FULL REPORT OF THE NOMINATION WILL BE GIVEN IN "THE SUN" TO-MORROW (THURSDAY). The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. - c*" " A6.;/Y )., " Zfn aam+ WITII WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1838. The debate on Lord MainsToxit's party and personal motion was resumed last night in the House of Com mons. Mr. PENDAIIVES, willing to prevent further floun dering in the stinking mire of faction, proposed an amend ment. After referring to the declarations made by seve ral Members, that they believe Election Committees to be blamed, and to the Bill for amending the law on the subject, he concluded that the House should proceed no further in the matter of Mr. O'CONNELL. After some speaking rather against time than to state facts or elicit truth, the House decided against the amendment, which was lost by a majority of 24. Mr. H. GRATTAN then pro posed to add words to the motion, which would have the effect of declaring that Mr. O'CONNELL alone should be reprimanded, though many other persons had com mitted the same or worse offences. After a noisy discus sion, in which Mr. ROCHE deliberately repeated again and agan ti e same breach of privilege, the House decided that Mr. O'CONNELL only should be reprimanded by 29, and that Gentleman is ordered to attend in the , House to-day to be reprimanded by the SPEAKER. Some farces are very amusing to the spectators, but tiresome and in . ;tuious to the actors. The active labour of GRIMALDI to excite the laughter of the public shortened his life. Whether such will be the effect of the farce we have just alluded to we cannot predict ; but we believe, however much it may gratify the malignant passions cf some in-' tli‘idnals, that it is neither amusing to the reflecting public, nor will it lengthen the political lives of the actors. On the first division, only 225 Liberals divided, and on the second only 197, in favour of the amendments. The estimated strength of their party is 340, and of these only 225 were present. We called on them yesterday to at tend, but they were deaf to our admonitions. We regret this for their sakes, and for the sake of the empire at large. It never admitted of a doubt that The attack on Mr. O'CONNELL was altogether dictated by personal and party motives. Similar language has, been held by other persons in the House of Commons itself ; such language has been reite rated by several newspapers of both parties, and Members were content to lie under the imputation till it was re peated by Mr. O'CONNELL at a tavern after dinner, and then the Tories went out of their way to bring it before the Hou3e. They conveniently closed their ears to the lan guage uttered in the face of the Speaker by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. C. BULLER, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, charging Members with perjury ; but they put trumpets into both ears to catch the distant tavern whispers of the Catholic Leader. If any doubt could possibly hare existed as to the attack being wholly a personal and party one, it would be removed by the language of the Tory journals. Through two columns and a half does the Times this morning exult at the victory obtained over the Ministers and their master, " the very LUCIFER of the guilty work," of keaping the Ministers in office. The Liberal Members who did not attend, and could have attended, have been fulse to their party, and have given a quasi triumph to the Tories. But a still stronger reason should have made those who represent English and Scotch con stituencies eager to be present. Many of them are ac cused of entertaining feelings of personal hostility to Mr O'CONNELL. The gist of that Gentleman's accusation is, that Ireland is treated with injustice ; such of the Liberal Members as absented themselves last night, or still worse, voted against Mr. PENDARVES'S amendment,_ will be suspected of deserving the accusation, and of sacri ficing both the interests of their party and of the country to their personal animosity to Mr. O'CONNELL. He is great as the representative of Ireland, and the careless ness or perverseness of those Liberal Members who did not support him will be ascribed to their hatred of that country. The sectional animosities of the empire, which it has been the noble object of the Whig party and policy to lessen and soothe, and the great pride of the young QUEEN'S reign to terminate, will be exasperated by the same act by which some Liberals have struck a suicidal blow at their own party. It will not be possible for the House of Commons to atop where it now stands. Last night, as the night be fore, Mr. HUME had the words of Mr. Rocini and of Mr. Gtr,LoN taken down by the Clerk, and they are on the records of the House. Those gentlemen hare committed a much greater offence than Mr. O'CONNELL ; for they have knowingly, and in opposition to repeated warnings, bearded the House and defied it. Mr. HUME cannot take any further steps in the matter ; but the Tories will make it manifest to the whole world that their conduct has been dictated by poor and pitiful spite against Mr. O'CON.. NELL ; should they neglect to follow up the at tack on him, by moving that these other Members be committed to Newgate. Their character for consis tency will not rise in the country, after having gone out of their way to attack Mr. OTONNEEL, prying into tavern speeches for the mea if they do not also prose cute all the newspapers all the public speakers at any public meeting will s all violate the privileges of the House. But cannot be consistent : passion is blind, and the public will hare to add to the privileges of the House of Commons that of setting at naught, like other irre 'sible bodi he god sense of mankind. The Spectator le on the arrogant Commons, justly for mimicking the Lords, and arro our masters. Next Sunday, we anonstrate that their ambition and that they aim at being the its, the language, and the reason of , y us, and called the Reformed Par un-reformed privileges of the House, J. The evil is, that the Tory•framed privileges, the privileges which the boroughmongers esta blushed for the protection of their tyranny, and for stifling the voice of the people, are still in existence, and now it appears arc to be hurled, sharpened, and pointed, by those who have stolen as Reformers into the national confidence, to strike down the nascent liberties of the people. All the City authorities are up in arms against Lord JOHN RUSSELL, for presuming to interfere with the City Police. The Court of Aldermen passed resolutions on Monday against the proposed plan of the Home Secretary ; the Court of Common Council followed the example yester day ; and deputations were appointed to wait upon his Lord ship, in order to impress upon him the necessity of leaving the City of London to manage the Police in its own way. Whig, Tory, and Radical, unite against his Lordship, and were the public to judge from the language used, they, roust come to the conclusion that the Government and Legislature will be satisfied with nothing short of the total annihilation of the rights and privileges, nay, the very exis-' tense of the Corporation. Sir PETER LAURIE said them was a desire in Parliament to " clip the wings of the Coral ' , oration." Mr. GALLOWAY denounced the plan as are attempt " to undermine and destroy the rights and libertieel of the citizens of London ;" and Mr. WIRE, appealing to the spirit of their ancestors, trusted the Corporation would show that " they knew their rights, and were deter mined to maintain them." The attempt, in short, is compared to the seizure of the Charters by the profligate CHARLES 11. It is really astonishing how men of sense can be thus carried away by their passions and selfish in terests, from the real merits of the case. They complain that, while ail other Corporations are allowed to regulate their own Police, the City of London should be singled out as an exception. The answer is simple : there is no Cor poration in a similar position ; and with equal justice all the parishes around the City might have complained of the Bill introduced by Sir ROBERT PEEL. That was as direct an interference with the rights and privileges of vestries, and churchwardens, and parish constables ; a similar cry, it is true, was got upby the interested parties on that occasion ; but the state of the old Police was such as to justify the interference, and the clamour was soon put down by the voice of public opinion. The city of London was exempted from the Bill, on a distinct understanding that Reform was to be introduced into the eity Police, and they have been allowed now nearly ten years to carry this Re form into effect ; but, according-to the evidence of various witnesses examined before the Police Committee of last Sf,'S sion, it is hardly yet begun. These witnesses stated that the ;day Police had been improved (as it well might, there being formerly hardly the shadow of a day Police), but that the night Police was extremely defective—that owing to the watchmen being confin el to their respective wards, two men were required to do the duty of one—that thieves escaped in consequence—that for an hour and a half be tween the night-watch coming on and the day Police going off, the most opportune period for pick-pockets, there was ❑o Police whatever in the streets—that the duties were performed, not by the watchmen appointed by the City authorities, but by substitutes, who also hired, as substitutes, the old night watchmen—and that thieves and notorious characters were allowed to escape, be cause these guardians of public property received more from the thieves they suffered to remain, than for their services from the public. These are but a few of the evils of the present system. It is evident something must be done, and as the City Authorities have slumbered so long, an i suffered for years this nuisance in the heart of the metropolis, what right have they to impugn the conduct of the Home Secretary for proposing measures to abate it ? We care not by whom the Reform is effected, but it is evident something must be done ; and if blame attache any where, the citizens of London will see that it attach more to their Civic functionaries than to Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We insert in to-day's paper a valuable letter on the subject of the queries relating to Church-rates, put to us by our Bingham C •rrespondent, from Mr. COURTAULD, of Braintree, and are gratified to find the correctness of °Tee replies corroborated by a " legal friend," so well versed in the law of Church-rates. Mr. COIIRTAULD'S remarks on the powers •of cx officio chairmen at vestry meetings deserve the earnest attention of the public, and particu larly of all who have the misfortune to be subjected to this species of clerical domin ttion in parochial: matters. Nothing can he more arbitrary than the conduct of those Reverend Gentlemen who preside at parish meetings in virtue of their office—generally, we believe, in conse quence of some local Act smuggled through Parliament. It not unfrequently happens that a Chairman of this de scription refuses either to put a motion made and seconded in the most regular way, or to vacate the Chair ; thus setting at complete defiance the will of the meeting, of which he is, and can, according to analogy and common sense be, nothing but the organ. Is a Chairman, then, it may he asked, bound to put to the vote every mo tion so made and seconded ? We answer decidedly not ; but if he doubt the propriety of any motion, he is assuredly hound to take the sense of the meet ing as to whether the said motion shall be put or not. Having ascertained this point, he has, we ecnceive, no alternative but either to obey the wishes of the assembly, or to retire from the chair. We cordially agree with our intelligent correspondent, in the hope that the question regarding the powers of these cx Obstructives may speedily be brought to issue, and determined, in a Court of Law. _ - We extract from the Hanover Gazette of the 21st inst. the following account of the opening of the Chambers, summoned by King ERNEST, to deliberato upon the draft of the new Constitution, promised by his MAJESTY to his " beloved subject.," in his letters patent of the Ist of No vember. Previous to the assembling of the Deputies his MAJESTY set aside the election of M. MEYER for the capital, on suspicion of his attachment to the Constituticn granted by WILLIAM the FOURTH. No Deputies have been returned for Hildeshiem, Oseaburg, and Emden, the electors of these cities having refused to exercise such a political right, lest it might be construed into an ac quiescence in the justice of the decree promulgated in the Royal letters patent. Our readers will bear in mind that the liberty of the Press is abolished in Hanover, and that the following account, as far as relates to the popularity of the KING, was probably dictated in the Royal Cabinet : On the 20th instant King Ernest opened in person the ses sion of the States of Hanover. After the celebration of divine service in the Castle chapel, the members of the States re paired to the Hall of the Legislative Body, and took the oath tendered to them by the Hereditary Marshal of the Kingdom. Count Munster. The Prince Royal also attended at this ce remony. At a quarter past two o'clock the Royal cortege left the Castle, and on reaching the Legislative Palace his Ma jesty was received by the Hereditary Marshal and the members of the Boards of both Houses. The King, having then en tered the Hall, seated himself on his throne, the Prince Royal being on his right, and the grand dignitaries of the Crown on his left, and delivered the following speech : " Noble Lords, worthy and faithful Deputies—My anxious desire to see assembled around my throne the worthy States of I this kingdom is at length gratified. It is for me a great satis faction. When I determined on abrogating the fundamental law of December 26, 1833, by the promulgation of my Royal patents of November 1, 1837, an attempt was made to create a belief that it was my intention to arrogate to myself an ar bitrary power over the subjects Providence has committed to my care. I have ever detested an arbitrary form of govern ment, and I wish to govern my beloved people only according to law and justice. In order, worthy States, to give you an unquestionable proof of the uprightness of my intentions, I will shortly cause to be laid before you the draught of a new Constitution for my kingdom, based on the principles which have so long secured the prosperity of the people of Germany. I indulge the hope that my views will perfectly coincide with yours on all the main points of the new Charter. Various other important Bills will also be submitted to your delibe ration. I declare that the Session of the States is opened." _ _ After delivering this speech, the King left the hall to re turn to his Palace. The Royal cortege followed the same order as on its way to the House, and his Majesty received on his passage through the streets, as well as on his arrival before the Palace, unequivocal proofs of the satisfaction and affection of his subjects. At five o'clock there was a grand dinner at the Castle, to which the Members of both Houses were invited. Immediately after th© King had retired, the Members of the First Chamber of the States repaired to the hall of their meetings to name the candidates for the Presidency. The following were elected :—.Messrs. Oberschenk, Count Platen Hallermund, Counts Junh and Knyphausen, and de Wense. The list of candidates having been submitted to the King, his Majesty appointed President Count Platen Hallermund, who immediately took the oath of office. The Second Chamber likewise elected its candidates for tho Presidency. They were Messrs. Jacobi Lang, Doctor of Law, and Hcnicken, Councillor of State. The Paris Journals of Monday, the whole of which we have received, contain no intelligenc e of any moment. Application has been made to the Chamber of Deputies for leave to prosecute a Member, M. EMILE GIRARDIN, for swindling. The request has been refused by a Com mission appointed to decide upon it ; felony being the aponsible bodies, the goo 1 41/Stst4 9l ,,A l , : ; article ( 4:oilt-rjyrfir ants fi I!lari k. , be /5. riAr. A. , 7, ,, •-• ' ~..,: . it,: WI den 'Atli , ~., ',-, '.-- 2 1 ` ; .. • p..... ~,, 4.., '., i - qzt , .ive, •"•' - , 4 wi l - .s • 15014 ught 1 / 4 " - g , °t l4( i‘_ -*/%70 nby e ll ito 4 .-e the un --- attain t tr bad ends. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1838. lowest species of crime for which a Deputy can be arrested during the sitting of the Chambers. But with the first dissolution terminates the personal inviolability of the Members of the Second Branch of the Legislative Body. It was M. EMILE GIRARDIN, if we remember rightly, who shot in a duel the gallant and patriotic M. CARREL. The following are brief extracts from the Papers : It is affirmed that Espartero and Goronimo Valdez and the Baron de Meer, as well as General Quiroga, hare been ap pointed officers of the Legion of Honour. By virtue of an Order from M. Zangiaconi, two journeymen printers, Messrs. Corleon and Danguy have been arrested as promoters of an association of several journ,cymen printers. The day before yesterday Mr. Savoye professor of the Ger man language, was delivering his lectures, when several police officers appeared, to whom M. Savoye was obliged to open all his drawers and whew his papers. A Ministerial paper announces that a new search made by the police yesterday, at the residence of M. C—, wine merchant in tho Rue de Grenelle, had led to the discovery of sc,eral pounds of powder made up in small packets. Mr. C— was arrested. The Journal des Deliais says that the preliminary investi gation of the affair of Leprestre, Duhocage and others, at whose residence it is said above 150 packets of cartridges %ere seized, is proceeding with great activity. The Moniteur of to-day has no official article.—Le Cont. merce. FRENCH FUNDS —PARIS, FEB, 21. Five per Cents. 101/f. 110 e. Three per Cents., 7:lf. 75c. Bank Actions, 2.,6450f. Romans, 101%. Belgian Bank, 1,517f.7.7.0c. Portuguese Three per Cents., 18 1 ,4. Haytlan Loan, 3.55 f. Spanish Actives, 11). Spanish Passives, .1. THE DIVISION. The following Reformers were absent last night. Some of them have valid excuses, but their constituents must look after the others.—Acheson ( Armagh), Andover ( Malmes bury ), Bainbridge (Taunton), Bannerman ( Aberdeen), Berke ley (Cheltenham), Berkley (Gloucestershire), Blake ( New port), Blunt (Lewes), Brabazon (Dublin, co.), Brabazon (Mayo), Bryan (Kilkenny, co.), Bulwer (Lincoln), Butler (Kilkenny, co.), Campbell (Argyleshire), Cave (Tipperary), Carley ( Yorkshire), Chapman (Westmeath) Chester (Louth), Chichester (Barnstaple), Childers (Melton), Clay (Tower Hamlets), Clayton (Marlow), Clive (Hereford), Con3lighem (Canterbury), Crompton (Thirsk), Dashwood (Wycombe), Denison (Surrey), Duke (Boston), Duncombe (Finsbury, ill), Dundas (Flint), Dundis (Richmond), Dun das (Orkney), Dunlop. (Ayrshire), Edwardes (Montgomery), Ellice ( Harwich), Elliot (Roxburphire), Euston (Thet ford), Evans ( Westminster), Fenton (Rochdale, Fergu son (Nottingham), Fiulden (Oldham), Fitzallan ( Arun dell), Fitzpatrick (Queen's County), Fleetwood (Preston). Grattan (Wicklow), Hallyburton (Forfarshire ill), Heneage (Grimsby), Heron (Peterborough), Ilindley (Ashton), Hos kin (Herefordshire), Howard (Wicklow), Howard ( Carlisle), Humphery (Southwark), Hurst (Horsham), Jervis (Bridport), Jervis (Chester), Kerry (Caine), Kinnaird (Perth), Langton ( Somerset), Leader (Westminster, ill), Lushington (Tower Hamlets), Martin (Galway co.), Milton (Malton),7Moles worth (Leeds), Moreton (Gloucestershire), Morris (Caer marthen), O'Brien (Clare). O'Connell (Athlone), O'Con nor Don (Roscommon), Paget (Beaumaris), Phillpotts (Gloucester), Potter ( Wigan, ill), Power (Waterford Co.), Protheroe ( Halifax), Prvse (Cardigan), Ramsbottom (Wind sor), Rice (Dover), Rumbold (Yarmouth), Roche, D. (Lime ' rick), Russell (Bedfordshire), Russell (Tavistock), Schole field (Birmingham), Sharpe (Dumfries), Slaney (Shrews bury), Smith (Chichester), Smith (Northampton), Speirs (Richmond), Stewart (Honiton), Strickland (Yorkshire, W.), Surry (Sussex, W.), Talfourd (Reading), Verney ( Buckingham), Villiers (Wolverhampton), Vivian (Swan sea), Vivian (Bodmin), White (Sunderland), White, Col. (Longford) t Williams (Coventry), Wood (Loudon), Woreley (Lincoln, L.) We must add that Messrs. Howard (Suther land) and Benett (Wiltshire), called Reformers, voted for Lord Maidstone's motion. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) TTT EL Trir 0' CL 0 CK. We hear that the Columbus American packet has arrived at Liver. pool from New York, but does not bring later dates than previously re. ceived by the Mtdiator to the 241 inst. _ The following address had been presented by the Council and the House of Assembly at Antigua to Governor Colebrook, relative to the convening of a General Council and Assembly of the Leeward Islands. A series of resolutions accompanied this address, expressive of the the feelings of both Assemblies in favour of this object. " May it please your Excellency,--We, her Majesty's dutitkil and loyal subjects, the Board of Council and House of Assembly, beg to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's commu nication of the 2.lst instant, relative to the convening of a Ge neral Council and Assembly of the Leeward Carrihee Islands, together with your Excellency's Proclamation on the same subject, and a certain writ in her Majesty's name, directed to the President and Members of the House of Assembly; and we now pray leave most respectfully to submit herewith certain joint resolutions which have been passed on the occasion, and whieli we entreat your Excellency favourably to re ceive, and considerately to entertain, as embodying the sentiments of both Houses on this iraportant matter. S. WARNER, President. Dec. 9.51, 1 5:37. A. 14UGENT, Speaker. Yesterday was settling day in the British funds 5 t•-day Is pay-day, and we have no doubt that all the drafts fur the balances will meet duo honour. To the present hour there Is a stagnation of business both in the British and Foreign Markets, and the chief attention of the public is to wards the business in the House of Commons this night, and in what manner Mr. O'Connell will receive the reprimand. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92i 2_ for Money, and 92 for the Account, opened at the same prices this morning, and hare not varied to the present time. Exchequer Bills, i 3 57 ; India Bonds, 55 57; Bank Stock, 206+ N. Those unmarked 12 to 14 preir— This is settling day in the Foreign Mark et ; consequently, the Brokers and Jobbers are chiefly employed in paying and receiving their (Signed) differences. tip to the present hour, most of the Foreign Stocks are much the same in price as they left off yesterday, with the exception of Spanish Ac tire, which is rather lower, owing to their coming with a decline from Paris. Spanish, Hi 19% ; Portuguese, 27.1 i ; Three per Cents„ 18 to 1,4 • Mexican, 291 to 2 ; Colombian, 23 to . ; Brazilian, 74 %. PRICES OF SfOAS THIS DAY AT UNE O'CLOCK Bank Stock ...... .................• .. 3 per Cent. dea.......... ......... 93% % Oitto 80nd................. e• 3 per Cent. Cons 92 %% South Sea Stock ......... ....-.- 7,7:7 3% I,er Cent.............. --Old .knnnities ..... .....-- ' ,33 28 Ditto Red New 334 per Cent lt i oV‘2 3 per Cent. Annuities, - 16, _— New 5 per Cent..-. .........,__ Exch. Bills, .EI,IXA' ...... 57 sti 60 wo Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto. 50..1„„ ..., 55 51) cm. Jan. 5, 1860 ISW 5-16 Ditta Small ............... ••• 53 58 Inn Jan. Oct. 10, 1853 Jan. 5, 1960 14 15-16 Ditto Advertised ........ .... p in Jan. 5, 183. — Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... April i. , , ISSO —l India Stock for 7 A c count ......... Jan. 5, 1874.... ....... PRICES OF FOREIGN FINDS THIS DAY AT ONL o'CL°Ck• Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds ....... ..... ... 10 2i-. '3 4 Ditto Account .................. 0:tto Account-- — Portuguese Bonds.. ..... . ....... Brazilian Bonilr Unto Account 75 4 3 4 Ditto New BonAs ......... ......27.44% 8.V.A.105 Ayres Bonds ...... .— — Ditto Account .. .............. 2'7% Ditto Account — Ditto, :3 per cent.... ••••""•'•1634 -hillipn Bonds — Priitsrui Bands .................... . Ditto Acconnt ... - 1t.r.„4.1an Bemis, 1 S 2 ‘ 2 ... . - ...... Calore - i'as. Bonds Ditto A.eccunt ...... ........ _ Ditto Account —.933; 9 8% %% ' C•ilunabia.n 1i,...nd5,1824 29 8 !ii 1 : , , , , Spanish Bonds .............. „ ..... Ditto Metallic ....... ............ Dmish Ronds ....... Ditta Account ....... ..... -.....— Ditto Account ... ............... Ditto Account ...... ........ .... Break. 80nd5.... - ..... . ..... - French, 5 per cent......-- —f ' —c ' Onto Bonds, 18'43 -- Ditto Account .... ....... ... —— 3 per cent........... "" —r ' Mexican Bon:•ls, 5 per mu—. Exchange ........... ‘.?sf. 5n Ditto Account ................ Dutch, 234 per cent ........ ....58% Ditto, 6 per cent. • ''9 l ,i% Ditto Account ... ............... - '''' ---" • 4 per cent. .......... --f„ —c. Ditto Account... Neap01it,n......... .-.... ....... PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Cato Branca Mining Company City Railway 9. g, ;• 314 Commercial Blackwell Railway Company 9 Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Comnany ...... Eastern Count., Railway 3 2% 1 , 3 Great Northern Railway Company Great Western Railway Company 65 98% Brighton Railway Company London and Blackwell Railway O Ditto Scrip 5 N 1.-crulon and Birmingham Railway Co:!:pany 9O ' S Ditto % Shares 5 3 2 London Grand Junction Railway London, Sainsbury, and Exeter Railway 1 :Is. I,:r.cliester and Birmingham Railway 7 934 10 Northern and Eastern Railway Company South Midland Railway Company l 6s. ss. Australasia Bank_ 4O Ditto Colonial A a . D ti s i o t t n e t o r a d 1 S cl a B 3 :1 11 . )k l . Bank t ... lrelan dc . F. 1,2 5 . 7 20 COU.'r SE OF Excii, Ditto, at sight — l2 3 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5% Antwerp.. . l2 s% 1-14mburg.................31.13. 13 13i,, A1t0na....• Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto . ..... ....... - .... .3 Ms 25 95 Marseilles. Rourdeaux - Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 31 1 Petersbuigh, rub1e...... 3 Us lO IL:ran . Vi en na, effective ti„.....9 Al lO 12 Trieste......ditto ..... ....... Madrid ......... ... ........... .. Cadiz....... ........ .. ........ ... 34 25 25 1734 15% '.NOE YESTERDAY. 1 , iihranar 4B Leghorn 32 Genoa 26 15 Milan., 31 Venice - 46 Naples , 39% Palermo per oz. 117 Lisbon .4.,i Orocto 504 Rio Janeiro niii Bahia 25 Buenos Ayres -- Dublix, 21 slays' sight W Cork PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, c0in.....„ 4:0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 9 17 9 New boubloons Bdboa .... ... .................. .. .. New Dollars 13,reelona ... .................... n 4 0 4 9% . bars, standard 0 4 1 141 HALL.F-PA ST ONE 0' CL 0 cur. Seville .............. ......-.. ...... 34 Silver . A Baltimore paper received to the Ist List, states that the Committee of the Banks of New York, which went to Philadelphia to negotiate the resumption of specie payments by the banks of both cities, simulta neously,papers received this morning state that a general half yearly on a day near at hand, have returned without accom p lishin g th e i r mission. of the proprietor s of the London a nd Birmingham R a il w ay was held at the Ro y al Hotel, Birmingham, on Weinesd ay last, The meetingL iverl and the meeting was numerously attended. The statement of the ac counts laid before the proprietors was as follows,—The Receipts to the 31st December, 4,229,1361. Ss. 7d. The Disbursements, 3,981,8261. 12s. 3d. The Balance of Cash in the Company's hand, 247,3071. 16s. 4d. e amount applicable to the further expen di ture of the Company Nast, 625,456/. Is. 7d. . The British Market continues in the same stagnant state as in the early part of the morning, and Consols may be quoted 92 g z 5 , ; Money, 926- ; ' for next Account, 92f a. Exchequer Bills improved from 56 57 to 150 prem. ; India Bonds, to be paid off, 13 12 ; Bank Stock, 207 2064 ; India Stock, 5611. In the Foreign Market there are not any speculations of consequence transacting. The chief business is paying and receiving th e din_ renccs of their Accounts. Spanish Active, IS -,1 19h, with Coupons; Portuguese, 27k, Three per Cents. 18+ ; Brazilian, 75 . Colombian has been done at 29, now 2SI ; Dutch Two-and.a-Half, 531 I, ; m ex i. can, 29 to 29&. . We have not as yet received the American papers by the Columbus, from New York, of the Ist instant, but t e h hy are expected every our. They cannot be of much importance, being of the same date as the last arrivals. THREE. O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 9a. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) YOUGH AL. The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when Mr. David Pollock (Counsel) called Mr. John Pollock, sen., of Youghal, agent for the pe titioner, to prove that William Flanagan, the sth voter objected to, had removed before the election, from the tenement for which he was registered. In the cross-examination by Mr. Austin, Mr. Pol lock said there was a Conservative Committee in Youghal, which met at Dr. Green's occasionally, and sometimes at the Con s,rvative Rooms ; did not know whether or not they sat during the election ; knew they ought—(A laugh)—witness did not subscribe to the election fund ; but having acted as Mr. Niehol's agent he was entitled to a fee of 100/. under the Act of Parliament,and as he refused to accept any thing for his services, that sum was put down as his subscription to the election fund. A witness named Roche, cleik and process-server to Mr. Pollock, corroborated the statement as to the removal of Flanagan. The resolute indirectness of this witness's answers in cross-examination as to his own activity in the canvass excited much laughter. He said that he took part in the canvas for Mr. Nichol, through his attach ment to " Church and State:" upon which Mr. Austin remarked that his Church and State was very like Jesuistry.—(A laugh.) Mr. D. PoLLocx—That is a very improper speech. Mr. AueTtN—lt is a very proper speech and very correct. Mr. A. then reviewed the evidence of the witness as to Flanagan's removal, and contended that it was not such as the Committee ought to take as sufficient to disqualify the voter, In such eases, the best evidence had not been adduced. The landlord of Flanagan, or his agent, might have been produced; instead of which, the evidence offered was only that of the petitioner's agent (for the Committee weald attach little weight to the evidence of Roche the', process-server) and in every court of law, the evidence of the Solicitor to one of the parties was always received with great caution, when better could be had. The evidence, however, of Mr. Pollock, the solicitor in this case, went no further than an admission of the voter to him during the canvass ; and surely such an admission under such eircumstantes could not be allowed to disqualify any man. The ♦ote was struek off. - - The next vote objected to was that of Francis 31. Cury, on the sane ground of removal. The vote was struck off without opposition. George Evans, formerly a publican , was next objected to. A witness, called to prove the voter's removal, said that he was obli gated to go into the house every Sunday night in the weck.—(Laughter.) Strange as the blunder is, the witness, a well-informed person, did not seem conscious of it, or attempt to correct himself. Mr. HARRISON—You visit the house every Sunday in the week ? Witness—Yes.—(Great laughter.) Would not swear that he had been in the house for four weeks before the election. Mr. Harrison—And that you call being in it every Sunday in the week ?—(A laugh.) The Committee, after a short deliberation, struck off the vote. The votes of John Kinaher, John Coughlan, and James Culbert were then struck off—all on the same ground as the fernier votes, namely, loss if qualification by removal. Nine votes is all having been no.v struck off the sitting Member's (Howard, Liberal) poll, the original majority being S—the petitioner (Niehol, Tory) is in a majority of one. After some discussion between the Counsel on both sides as to the future mode of proceeding, it was agreed that to-morrow morning the sitting Member's Counsel will commence to impugn a number of votes on the petitioner's poll, on the same ground of disqualification by removal. The Committee then adjourned at two o'clock. TAUNTON. The Committee metthis day at twelve o'clock. The, Hon. It H. CLIVE in the Chair. Mr. BEAR and Mr. AUSTIN appeared for the petitioners ; Messrs. COCKBURN and KINGIAKR for the sitting Member, Mr. Bainbridge. Mr. Baia said he appeared in support of the allegation of the peti tion, and the Committee would perceive there were two distinct charges, one was, that Mr. Bainbridge was not duly elected by a legal majority of votes, and the other that there had been bribery and treating. The main object would be to ascertain who had the majority of votes, the abject being not so much to render Mr. Bainbridge's election void, as to claim the scat on behalf of Mr. Robert Newton Lee. The election took place on the 25th of July, and the numbers at the close of the poll were for Afr. Labouchere, 469 ; for Mr. Bainbridge, 414 ; and for Mr. Lee, 409. In this majority of 5 would be found one man who had voted twice, and one case of personation. Other objections were, that voter, had ceased to be qualified that certain potwallopers had ceased to Inhabit or received parochial relief--that parties had ceased to he qualified as the time of registration, .te. ; and there were two or three cases of bri bery, four or five objections as to wagers, and two instances in which votes had been tendered for Mr. Lee, which would be sought to be put on the poll. Dr. Woodford, one of the bailiffs, produced the poll-books and to; gister of votes for 1836. Thomas London, potwaller, East-street, No. 287, on the register, was the first voter objected to. The Committee decidedthat the vote was a good one, and that tha person who had a right to vote was Daniel London. James Billings, 59 on the register, was objected to, as having voted twice. One of the votes was struck oft John Sandsbury, 1061 on the register, was struck orlon the ground of removal. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY GOODSON 0. ELLIS.--JUDGMENT. The LORD CITANCELLOR gave Judgment today in this case, which was argued before his Lordship a few days since. Hie Lordship ordered the demurrer to be overruled, giving the petitioner liberty to amend ; and if they did not do so within three weeks, then the defendants were to be at liherty to file a new demurrer. 11PRNAL V. BERNAL. His LORDSHIP also gave judgment in this case, declaring that males descended ftcm males only were entitled to the bounty of the testator. When the ease was before the Curt upon argument, we gave a short statement of the facts, and it is therefore unnecessary to repeat them again. COUTREL V. TIIE 01/RADIANS OF THE WINDSOR tivION. The arguments in this case were resumed, but had not concluotwi when we lett. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) WOODS V. PA RLETTr. This was a bill for the specific performance of an agreement for the purchase of a house in Great Ormond-street. The defence was that in the Particulars the house was described as a dwelling house, while the tenant in possession was carrying on the business of a dyer. Lerd LANGDALE decreed in favour of the plaintiff, but without eosts. FISHER V. F 1511412. In this case, which arose upon the construction of a will, his Lord. ship post poncd giving judgment. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) BIKES AND OTDERS V. X DWAIDS. arr. KNIGITT Bouca applied to-day, nt the sitting of the Court, on behalf of the plaintiffs, who are large iron merchants and importers of Swedish iron in Kingston upon-Hull, fur an injunction to restrain the defendants from using the word " Sykes" and certain other marks upon what was called " Hoop L" and other iron manufactured by him. The Learned Counsel stated that the Court had given leave some days since to serve a notice personally upon the defendant for an injunction t• re strain the use by him of the word " Sykes" and other marks upon iron, for he use of which Messrs. Sykes and Sons had the exclusive preference from the Swedish Government. In October last the plaintiffs discovered that their names had been improperly uscd by the defendant ; and upon making' an inquiry into the subject, they found that, as long ao as the month of April last, a gentleman of the name of Lyndon had bought from the defendant, Iron in bundles, of which one piece was genuine Iron bought from the plaintiff, and had the name of " Sykes" upon it. The piece was made to protrude from the other pieces of Iron with which it was tied up, and which were of a spurious manufacture. This, the Court must be aware, was a gross fraud. The facts which he had stated, were all verified by atgdavits, which were not contradicted. If any person had appeared, then of course, time would have been given to enable the parties to answer tho affidavits, but as the parties had been served, and nobody appeared, he believed he was enti tled to the Injunction, as a matter of course. fine VIcE-CusNcatLoa—Certainly take your Injunction. LLOYD'S HIPPING.-(THIS DAY, Deat, PEE. E.S.E., moderate, and hazy.—Arrived, and remains, the Grant, Sayers, from Demerara. Came down from the River, and proceeded, the Vernon, Davies, for Demerara; the Cleo patra, Rathwell, for Demerara. PowraMouTv, Fen. 27.—Wind E., fine.—Arrived, the Saucy Jack, Farrant, from Syria. Sailed, the St. James, Stbor, from New York ; the African, Free, from the West Coast of Africa. Passed by, the Indus, M `Faroluat of harbour ne, from London t. Spithsad. fo for Bombay. Her Majesty's ship Brisk is gone RAMCGATE, Fas. 27.—Arrived, the Aristella, Melliseu, Mexico. Dora; Fee. 27. Arrived, the Reliance, Beynon, from Berbier. CORK, FEB. 2i. —Arrived the Juno steamer, from London. YOUGRAL, Fan. 25.—Arrived off port th• Caledonia, Conn, from New Orleans. Livaapoot, Fez. 27.—Wind E., fresh, and heavy fall of snow. Arrived the Columbus, De Peyster, from New York. Arrived off port the Echo, from New Orleans; and Isabella, or Isabel (barque.) CORK, FHB. 23.—The cargo of the Alert being capsized in the hold, is about to be discharged for restowage. OFr 9441-MRS—The Clarence, Hayden, from Trieste. Daoonsioa, Faa. 24.—1 t has been blowing a gale from the East for the last twenty-four hours. A schooner, laden with salt and iron, from Liverpool to Dundalk, is on shore near Balbriggon, crew saved. DovEit, FEB. 27.—The Britannia, of Liverpool, was passed on the 10th inst., in lat. 45, long. 26, apparently abandoned, but could not be boarded, the sea running so high, by the West Indian, Boon. arrived at this port. Accounts were received at New York, Feb. 1, of a severe sale hav ing been experienced on the coast of California, in which several vessels were lost or much damaged. The Frances, of Perth, late Graham, was wrecked near Sunderland on the *2sth inst.—master and two boys drowned. Charles and Henry, Macgregor, from Llanelly, put into Plymouth leaky, having struck on some rocks, bound to London. The Britannia, frem Halifax to England, has been abandoned at sea. The James and Theresa, Dixon, and Blossom, Captain Burn, are on shore near Blyth. THE FUNDS.—CLOSINU PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. B an k Stock .. 207 Omnium - .. Cent. Red 9 3 14 India Stock Sper 92% Ditto Bonds ...... per Cent . Cons — South Sea Stock 3 3 per Cent. per Cent. Red. 101 1 % Ditto Old Annuities ew 3% per Cent. 100% Ditto New Annuitiez — 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented ..... Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 CO pm jaa. 1860 l5 5-16 Bank Stock for Opg. 0ct.1850 l5 1-13 India Stock for Act. Jan. 1660......... ......... 11 15-16 Consols for Feb. ..... ........... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — 'Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 10314 Ditto, New Ditto 27% Brazilian Bonds Buen©s Ayres, 6 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent .... Chilian, 6 per cent ; Ditto, Metallic ... Colombian, 6 per cent. 26N Spanish, 5 per cent 1934 I)itto, 11521 Danish, 3 per cent — i French, 5 pct cent ... Greek Bonds, h!.25,5 per cent — Exehang, Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent We. 50 Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... 29 Dutch, 2S per cent 5341 Feruv.au. 182.5,6 per cent, ... 20 1 4 1 Ditto, 5 per cent ....... 103% SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway 1 9 14 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bristol and Exeter Railway Eastern Counties Railway 2% Great Western Railway Hull and Selby - . 8 London and Brighton Railway lg London and Southampton Railway 42 Man^hester and Birmingham Railway Northern and Eastern Railway . 64 No other Tariations in the Prices of Shares since our One &elm k List. In the Scotsman we see that Mr. Mackenzie, the Member for Peebles-shire, has for some time past been con fined with an attack of small-pox, THE COAL TRADE. The Committee met on Monday at the usual hour, Mr. LA- BOUCIIFRE in the Chair. Mr. Beale, shipping clerk to the coal-meters office examined —The coal-meters office is under the direction of eighteen gentlemen, nine of whom are coal factors, and nine of them coal buyers. They arc elected annually by their respective trades, and they provide all parties applying with meters and weighers, and also with scales and weights, all of which are properly stamped. They have no other duties to perform. The coals are weighed by 2 cwts. at a time, eight weights to the ton. I don't think it would be advantageous to increase the quantity weighed at a time. The meter's office is in no way connected with the corporation of London. They charge 3d. per ton, which pays the meters and covers all the expenses of the establishment. They always keep up about 150 to 160 effective men. The original number in 1832, was 130 men, but it has since then been twice increased. We make no distinction between ships complying with the factor's regulations, and those who do not. We arc bound to supply all ships sold, on application. On some occasions from a great influx of ships there has been a delay of a day or two in supplying meters, but that is very seldom. I don't think it would be judicious to increase the number of meters as the demand would not be sufficient to give them sufficient employment. We supply meters as low down the river as Gravesend, without any additional charge. A great num ber of ships deliver by meters totally unconnected with the Coal Meters' Office. Any refusal to supply a meter must have arisen from the application having been out of hours. The meters work from seven in the morning till five in the even ing, and in the summer time from sunrise to sunset, if required. When the trade was open in 1824 we have had as many as 200 ships waiting for meters. During the last year we drafted off twenty-five meters at 255. per week for ten weeks, having no employment for them. It does not require much expe rience to make a man set as a coal meter. We could not appoint a number for a short period during the busy season, and have only a reduced establishment for the remainder of the year. They must be employed or paid by the year. The meters are only paid now when they work. By Mr. Ilema—No vessels can apply for a meter unless they are sold. There might have been vessels in the river un sold when these twenty five meters were pensioned off. Two hundred meters can be employed at a time, if only forty or fifty vessels are allowed to be sold at a time. By Mr. BILL—We must have a certificate of character from five factors or buyers before we employ a meter. Their pay is 2d. per ton. By Sir JAMES DUKE.--I think there is not so much delay now in supplying vessels with meters as under the old system. By the CHAIRMAN.—We have no exclusive privileges, and any party may establish a meter's office. We make no dis tinction between those who comply with the factor's regula tions and those who do not. The Duke of Devonshire is now importing coals, and they are not sold through a factor, yet his vessels experience no difficulty in obtaining meters as fast as they require them. Charles Green examined.— I am a coal-merchant, and am a member of the Coal-meters Committee. I have seen the evi- deuce of . Mr. Bentley before the Coal Committee in 1336 There have not been any alterations in tho disposal of the funds since then. No reduction in the charge of 3d. per ton for meters can at present be made, although in the course of the present year it is likely 1-d. per ton can be taken off. The surplus is now about 19,0001., and it is invested in Exchequer bills. The Committee meets every month, aed each member receives 20s. for his attendance at each Committee. He is fined for non-attendance. There is no compulsion to take a meter from the Coal-meters' Office. The application is made only when the buyer and seller consent to it. Officially we know nothing of the factor's regulations. Mr. Barney, Secretary to the Deptford Pier Company, ex amined. We complain of the inconvenience and injury sus tained by us in consequence of the factors' regulations. Oae or two captains, who were ashore on our pier, after several applica tions in London, got permission to unload. If they are in distress or see danger they protest, and then obtain permission to unload. The Captains complain very much of the regula tions. [Witness mentioned the names of two vessels which were in a very dangerous and sinking state during the late severe weather, but they would not bo allowed to unload.] I believe the result of the regulations is to raise the price of coals very much in the neighbourhood of Deptford and Green wich. I had eleven vessels on the pier at ones. If depots were formed on either side of the river, so that vessels might discharge their cargoes as fast as they arrived, it would be of great public advantage. By Mr. litnen-1 would myself form a depot for 1,000 or 2,000 tons at a time, if allowed. What prevents you doing that now ?—They go up the river an are there obliged to wait for their turn. I do not know of any legal impediment but the regulations. A vessel will deliver coals at Deptford, but she must wait for her turn. If a general sale was allowed, and the market thrown open, it would materially benefit the public and lower the price of coals. I hear complaints on every side of the regulations. By Mr. BELL—There is a Turn Act in the Tyne, and that is what occasions all the inconvenience. By Mr. Husis—l mean the Turn Act in the Thames is the cause of the inconvenience. I think the present system causes the exorbitantly high prices now charged for coals. I know nothing of the cost of production, or the amount of capital laid out in the purchase of collieries ; but I think if all were allowed to sell as they came into the river, it would very much reduce the price. The rise in price of coals delivered to the consumer at Deptford was from 265. to 355. and 38s. ; and at that time there was a vast number of ships in the river. The number in the river did net tend to keep down the price, as they were not allowed to unload. By Mr. BELL—The effect of the present system has been not to keep the price uniform and equal, but to keep it high. Coals might have been equally high during the free trade system, but all persons appear anxious to be allowed to sell. I cannot suggest any specifics enactment, but I should say, if the trade was thrown open it would reduce the price. I don't know the amount of supply per annum for the London market, or the number of vessels employed, but I should say, if competition was allowed it would enable persons to buy and sell at a fair price. James Fyfe, lighterman, examined—On the 24th January eleven or twelve sail of colliers came ashore at Deptford. Ap plication was made for barges to unload some of them, but they were refused. I advised one of them ashore on the pier to unload over the pier, but he said ho dared not do so without permission. Some of them lay there a fortnight in great danger. The fleets of colliers are a great nuisance in the river. They lie there waiting for their turn. I have been very much surprised at the fleets of colliers lying sometimes six weeks in the best part of the river waiting for their turn. The coals for Deptford are generally procured in the Pool, and conveyed down by barges. I did not perceive any thing particular in the number of vessels detained in the river in the year 1834, when the trade was open. The captains of these vessels I have spoken of said they had made application, but were refused permission to unload. They did not say to whom the application was made. One of the vessels, the Jane Clarice, after being three days ashore, protested, and was al lowed to unload at a wharf below the pier. By the Chairman—Colliers now remain on the average three or four weeks in the river, some of them six or seven weeks, some less. That is all occasioned by the regulations. The coal trade must be now a profitable one, as they can afford to have large now ships, and to lie six or seven weeks in the river. Robert B. Roxton—l am a ship-owner, and have been some years in the coal trade. lam not acquainted with the Bill for regulating the coal trade of the port of London. About seven years ago coals were at the lowest they were then sold at 18s. per ton ; they are now 245. to 263. I have heard of the regulations of the coal factors. I have two vessels in the trade, one of them was delayed ten days, and another a fort night. I leave the cargoes to my factor to do the best he can with them, and I know nothing of the regulations. There is always some delay in October, November, and December in the river, arising from vessels in the Baltic trade going into the coal trade. There being no other witnesses in attendance for examina tion, the Committee adjourned at three o'clock. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Feb. 28, 1838. SIR,---Will you allow a single word from an old schoolfellow of yours, an admirer of your great talents and usefulness, and a " taker in" of your singularly well-conducted Newspaper ? When I tell you that I am a coal-owner, a ship-owner, and a merchant, I hope you will, at least, not consider me interfering with what I knew nothing about (as is so much the case at present), when I direct your attention to a passage which has most strangely found its way into a leading article in The Sun of the 21st inst. It is this : " Ono of the witnesses stated—and no body ventured to deny tho assertion, that the eoal-owners in the North boasted that they could afford to work the coals at ten shillings per ton less than they do." I should have concluded that this was a mistake of the printer, and meant ten pence, but that I saw the same absur dity in the Courier only the day before. My dear Sir, I wonder that you who tak e suc h a very proper and praiseworthy interest in the prices of coal to the poorer classes, should not have made yourself master of the fact, that the very utmost prices of the best coal here sent to the London market, is only 10s. 3d. per ton, and 3d. for the expense of putting on board, making in all 10s. 6d. per ton on board in the river ; and this, recollect, only for three de scriptions of coals shipped in the Tyne, say, Gosforth, Heaton, and Berwick and coasters; all the other sorts varying in price from 7s. 3d. to 9s. 6d. per ton, at which you or anybody else who pays for them can get as many cargoes as you please, the vessels taking their regular turn at the several loading places. These, then, being the prices paid to the coal-owners, how very sensible it is to see it gravely stated, that the coal-owners boast of being able to work coals at 10s, per ton less than they now do I If the monstrous fact be true, that poor people are obliged to pay 38s. to 455. per ton for their coals, who receive the benefit of this most scandalous pr fit ? Not the ship-owner, who carries them to London at upwards of los. 6d. por ton in the present season, and generally Bs. to 9s. per ton in sum mer, and is obliged to be detained whole weeks in the Pool, because the factors will not discharge them. Not even the coal-factors, who sell (as you see by the coal prices i n every Paper) at 245., an d t h e very utmost at 265. per ton in London —but the London cold-rntrchants, whose profit is thus nearly as much as the whole price paid to the coalowner for investing, many of them, more than 100,000/. in one colliery, where the men aro paid always at gs. per day ; and all the other enormous expenses of carrying on the working at depths varying from 130 to 200 fathoms I As long as this is the case, do not, at least, blame the coal owners in the North, who, if they supply London with coals exclusively, do it simply because neither in Scotland nor in `Vales can they supply an article so cheaply, or of such a quality as the coals from Northutnberland and Durham. Neither can they be said not to send sufficient supplies, for appears as many as 500 and 700 ships are in the river at a time, and the London people refuse to discharge them ! Let it be at the same time known, that the greater number of the coal-owners here are not adequately remunerated for i the capital invested. On an av e rag e, sto 7 per cent. s about the return, although it is certain that some of the mines of fine quality yield very large returns. All I have herein stated, is so completely in the common place way of business, that there can be no question at all, as to the truth of it; but if you wish to look into it, you have nothing to do but write to any of the numberless Merchants, Brokers, &c. here, and trusting you will correct the statement as to the price of 103. less to the Coal-owners.-1 have tho honour to be, Sir, your most obedient OLD SCHOOL-FELLOW. Highest price of best Heaton Coals, Spontage, Town dues, 2d. per chaldron, of 53 cwts , being less than ' Highest freight from Newcastle, Sunder land, Hartlepool, Seaham, &c., to London, Id. los. od. 1/. Os. 7d. Say One Pound and Seven-pence per ton in London. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) Debate resumed on question (26th February), " That Mr. O'Connell be reprimanded for the same in his place by Mr. Speaker." Question again stated :—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " this House, taking into considera tion that several Members of this House have avowed their be lief, that the decisions of Election Committees, sworn well and truly to try the matter before them, are biassed by party inte rests and attachments ; and considering that the late decisions of such Committees have been impugned in the strongest terms by the publications in the daily newspapers ; consider ing, moreover, that this House has ordered to be read a second time a Bill to regulate the trial of elections and returns of Members to serve in Parliament,' is content to proceed no further in the matter of said complaint," instead thereof.— (Mr. Pendarves). Question put—" That the words proposed to be loft out stand part of the question." The House divided—Ayes, 249 ; Noes, 225. Question again proposed—" That Mr. O'Connell be repri manded for the same in his place by Mr. Speaker." Amend ment proposed—at the end of the question, to add the words, " Notwithstanding that the Members for the City and County of Cork, the Town of Sligo, and the Burghs of Falkirk, have avowed in their places in this House sentiments similar to those expressed by the Member for the City of Dublin — and although the House has permitted to pass uncensored, and even unnoticed, a published charge of the Bishop of Exeter, accusing the Roman Catholic Members of this House of a di!- regard of their oaths, and denouncing the exercise of their rights as treachery aggravated by perjury'."—(Mr. Henry Grattan). Question proposed—" That those words be there added." And a Member, Mr. Edmund Roche, having in the course of the debate stated that he adopted the sentiment and ex pressions of Mr. O'Connell, the words made use of by him were directed to be taken down by the Clerk ; and the same were taken down accordingly, and are as follow :—" I fully concur in and adopt the sentiment and expressions of the Hon. Member for Dublin." Question put, and negatived. Main question put—" That Mr. O'Connell be reprimanded for the same in his place by Mr. Speaker." The House di vided—Ayes, 226 ; Noes, 197. Ordered—That Mr. O'Connell do attend in his place to morrow. And a Member, Mr. Gillon, rising in his place, and stating that he adopted the sentiments and expressions of the Hon. Member for Dublin; the words made use of by him were di rected to be taken down by the Clerk, and the same were taken doe n accordingly, and are as follow :—" I adopt the sentiments and expressions of the Hon. Member for Dublin. NO PERJURY. Quotation from the Limerick Chronicle of the 10th February, by Mr. M. J. O'Connell, of what purported to be a letter written by the London correspondent of that journal on the first day on which election ballots took place in that House " House of Commons, Half-past Five. " The ballots are on—we have lost Salford and Roxburgh .-- but we have gained Ipswich." To gain a cause there is no surer way than to gain the judge- Illustration of what may be done in this way : In the Ipswich Committee In the Ipswich Committee of 1835 the votes of certain of 1838 the votes of c ertain special constables they special constables —they having voted for Mr. Kelly ing voted against M. I —were held to be good votes. —were held to be bad votes- In the Election Committee In the Election Coratnittoe of 1835 there were a majority of 1838 there were a mitjority of Whigs. of Tories. Is of The jurors sworn to try fairly an impartially the mos these two returns were not perjured. ono ! they had mere l y a bias which led them to act without regard to their oaths. STEALING NEWSPAPERS FROM COFFEE-HOUSES. Yesterday afternoon a stout lad, who gave his name Nathan Haswell, was placed at the bar before Mr. Codd the sitting Magistrate at, Worship-street, on a charge of stealing the Morning Chronicle newspaper from the Coffee house of Mr. Smith, near Whitbread's brewery, Chiswell street. It appeared from the evidence of a shoemaker named Toole, who was formerly known as a very active special constable, that about one o'clock yesterday he was in M r ' Smith's coffee-room, and being struck with the suspicious proceedings of the prisoner and a companion, who were also there as customers, ho watched them, and at length observed each of them conceal a newspaper, one in his pocket and the other in his cap. They were also in the act of abstracting two of the Monthly Magazines from the various publications on the table, but they ar patently saw him observing them, for they replaced the maga zines, and he overheard them making an appointment to meet in Type-street. One of them then went ont, and witness iril mediately followed in order to take him with the stolen news paper. The fellow, however, ran off and escaped, carrying off the Times in his pocket. The witness returning me t the , prisoner coming out of the coffee-room, and gave charge 01 him to Police Sergeant Scale, who happened to be passing a t the time, ant who found a newspaper in his cap. The Sergeant produced the Morning Chronicle, which he found in the prisoner's cap, described by the last witness. Mr. Smith stated that he had only opened the coffee house in Chiswell-street last Friday, but lie had pre viously kept a coffee-house in the Old Bailey, an d had been robbed of numberless newspapers and other publications. When the prisoner was taken, as al ready stated, he missed the two newspapers, the Chronicle and Times. The other publication that the prisoner and his companion had been preparing to carry off were of a more expensive kind—Blackwood and another magazine. Mr. CODD advised him to mark all his publications con spicuously with his name, so that if stolen they readily recognised wherever they were met with. The prisoner asserted that he had merely taken tho news paper to read over at his leisure, and return it. Mr. CODD remanded him for a week. m i g ht be --- Mr. T. S. Duncombe was prevented from attending the House on Monday night by severe indisposition. In addition to the 200 Members who voted last time for the Ballot, there are forty-eight other gentlemen known to be favourable to it, who did not vote on that occasion, but were absent either from indisposition or some other cause. Mr. Manes paired off with Mr. Horsman on Lord Maidstone's motion on Monday night. Mr. Mervyn Archdall has paired off with Sir Mon tagu J. Chapman till Easter. LIFE OF THE EARL OF ST. VINCINT.—Wo are requested to state that the " Memoirs and Correspondence Of Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent," by Captain Brenton,: R.N., author of " The Naval History of Great Britain' &c., in 2 vols. Bvo, with Portrait, are published this day °Y Mr. Colburn, 18, Great Marlborough-street, who has all ° , just ready a new work entitled " The River and the Desart, by Miss Pardoe, author of " The City of the Sultan," Sce., 13 2 vols. post Bvo, with numerous illustrations. COURT OF CONIMON COUNCIL.—The Td Mayor held a Court of Common Council yesterday, for the purpose of communicating to them the letter from Lord Joh n Russell relative to the City Police being put under the Com missioners of Metropolitan Police. The letter having been read, his Lordship then laid before the Court the resolutions and proceedings of the Court of Aldermen of Monday last, on the same subject which were read. The Court, after au animated debate, agreed unanimously to resolutions exp Russell, their surprise at the communication from Lord John ussell, being persuaded had an inquiry been previously instituted it would have been incontrovertibly proved that the wealth an d property of the city, comprising so large a portion of the mer chandise of the kingdom, has been subject to less depredatio n than in any other part of the country. Copies of the resolu tions were ordered to be transmitted to Lord John Russell, with a request that he would hold a conference with a deputa tion of the Court in conjunction with a deputation from the Court of Alderman. A deputation was then appointed, and the Remembrancer instructed to apply for the conference. 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